The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Substitute for coffee.

--A correspondent calls attention to the fact that a saving of fifty per cent, may be made in the amount of coffee consumed by a family by mixing sweet potatoes with it. The potatoes are cut up into small pieces, then roasted, and ground with the coffee, in equal or unequal proportions, according to the taste of the drinker. He declares that, if the coffee be made with care, the ingredients baked just enough and not too much, the coffee thus prepared from a large admixture of sweet potatoes with the berry cannot be distinguished by a connoisseur from that made from the berry alone.--If this be so, it is certainly worth trying. A first attempt, we suggest, should not be deemed conclusive, because it may not be properly made. Considerable skill, as every one knows is requisite to make good coffee from the berry alone; and several trials may be necessary in any given case to test properly the value of this suggestion in reference to a mixture of coffee and sweet potatoes for the production of a palatable beverage.--New Orleans Bulletin.